SAP Unlocking the Power Within: The Creative Path to Transformative Brain and Integrative Health Practices


This course is broadly interdisciplinary and was built on a conceptual and theoretical relationship between Art, Social Sciences, Health, and Neurosciences.

Macro concepts such as Creativity, Transformative Learning and Teaching through the Arts, Art and Mental Health, and Prevention of Risk Behavior, are related to more specific concepts such as emotional expression and emotional self-management, art as a tool for preventing risk behaviors, art as inter and intrapersonal communication tool, and neuroplasticity mechanisms linked to aesthetic enjoyment, among others.

The course is based on up-to-date scientific evidence and the presentation of international case studies and award-winning projects in a higher education context.

Through active teaching methodologies that encourage students to learn critically, participatively, and autonomously, the entire course enhances transversal insights and skills. It promotes an integrative and complementary vision of the different areas of knowledge.

Date
Number Hours
0 hours
Course Code / UFCD Code:
SUPW
Typology
Other
Mode of delivery
Blended
Location

Blended

Organised By

IPLeiria, NHL-Stenden & TUS

Certification

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Programmatic synthesis
Language of instruction
English - United Kingdom
ECTS credits
3 ECTS credits
Academic Recognition
In general terms, most students will have this RUN-EU SAP certified in the Diploma Supplement, as a minimal condition.
Means Criteria
Individual participation (attendance): 20% Group project assignment: 80% (30% intermediate online presentation + 50% final presentation - presential week). Active participation from all students of each group is mandatory in both group presentations.
Prerequisites

English (B2)

Scholarship Available

Admission Conditions

How to apply
Fill in the application form
Target Audience
RUN-EU students from any study cycle
Selection criteria
Maximum Number of Students to be selected: 30
Training Area
Special Conditions
regular laptop; internet connection; logbook (size A5_approximate measurements: 210×148 mm)
Learning Teaching Strategy
Professional Output

Workload Breakdown
Proposed Learning Outcomes

-Know the relationship that science shows between creative abilities and the promotion of well-being and improved health conditions;

-Understand the impact of art as a tool for personal and social transformation, with a view to better-integrating individuals from vulnerable sociocultural contexts;

-Understand the relationship between artistic experience and the promotion of self-esteem and empowerment of populations in environments considered to be favourable to risk behaviours (example, vulnerable young people, incarcerated inmates, etc.);

-Know how the brain transforms and adapts (neuroplasticity) in the face of artistic stimuli and how it can provide more creative and adjusted responses, whether in a rehabilitation context or educational or professional contexts;

-To learn about educational programs implemented in higher education in the health sector which, supported by active learning methodologies and the creative combination of multimedia resources, transmit useful knowledge about preventing sexual risk behaviours.

Coordination
Filipa Machado (IPLeiria), Paul Hartog (NHL-Stenden) and Geraldine Maughan (TUS)
Read all the details about this programme.
Please send an email to run-eu@ipca.pt or SAPchanginggames@ipca.pt if you have any further questions.